Γιατί αγαπάμε τόσο πολύ τα παιδιά μας και τόσο λίγο τα παιδιά των άλλων; Γιατί είναι δικά μας και μέσω αυτών αγαπάμε τον εαυτό μας.

Αν δεν τιμάς τους γονείς σου, ποιος πρόκειται να τιμήσει εσένα;

Αν θέλεις να είσαι άγιος, δίδαξε καλά τα τέκνα σου. Διότι, σε διαφορετική περίπτωση, οι κακές πράξεις που αυτά θα κάμουν, σε σένα πρόκειται ν' αποδοθούν μετά.

Για τη μητέρα, το παιδί είναι το παν, ενώ, γι' αυτό, η μητέρα είναι ένας κρίκος μόνο στην όλη αλυσίδα της ζωής του.

Δεν είναι περίεργο ότι από καλούς γονείς βγαίνουν καλά παιδιά κι από ανάξιους γονείς καλά παιδιά.

Είναι όμορφο να κληρονομείς τη δόξα και την υπόληψη του πατέρα.

Είναι σοφός ο πατέρας που γνωρίζει το ίδιο του το παιδί.

Η σοφία του πατέρα είναι η καλύτερη συμβουλή για τα παιδιά του.

Μεταχειρίσου τους γονείς σου με τον τρόπο που επιθυμείς να σου συμπεριφέρονται τα παιδιά σου.

Μια γυναίκα προτιμάει πάντοτε το παιδί της από τον άνδρα της.

Να είσαι πάντα πρώτος και καλύτερος από όλους και ποτέ να μη ντροπιάζεις τους προγόνους σου.

Ό,τι προσφέρεις στους γονείς σου θα λάβεις από τα παιδιά σου.

Οι τιμές και η δόξα των γονέων αποτελούν ανεκτίμητο θησαυρό για τα παιδιά.

Όποιου δεν του χαμογέλασαν οι γονείς του, δεν του αξίζει να δειπνήσει με τους θεούς, ούτε να πλαγιάσει με τις θεές.

Όσο ζουν οι γονείς σου μην ταξιδεύεις μακριά. Αν όμως χρειαστεί να ταξιδέψεις, να ξέρουν τον προορισμό σου.

Πολλά παιδιά - πολλές φροντίδες. Κανένα παιδί - καμία ευτυχία.

Τα παιδιά σου θα σου κάνουν ό,τι έκανες στους γονείς σου.

Τα παιδιά στην αρχή αγαπούν τους γονείς τους – όταν μεγαλώνουν τους κρίνουν – κάποιες φορές τους συγχωρούν.

Την ηλικία του πατέρα και της μητέρας σου δεν γίνεται να μην την έχεις στο μυαλό σου: αφ' ενός με χαρά, αφ' ετέρου με φόβο.

Υπάρχει καλύτερο κόσμημα για το παιδί από τη δόξα του πατέρα του και για τον πατέρα από τη δόξα του γιου του;

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.

In the 1970s, we had Carl Sagan, and he was so suave with his turtleneck and his tweed jacket. And he was, you know, he made science look cool. And in punk rock, we haven't had that. We haven't had the Carl Sagan of punk.

The crowd can be a little different in some places. For example, in Europe, people tend to be very respectful. They try not to make too much noise at inappropriate times. In other countries, people can be very still. Sometimes I'm not sure if a crowd is into it until the end, when they usually want me to do something crazy for the encore.

When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

The problem with industrial food is zero transparency. The system thrives on the fact that there is no transparency.

I remember cleaning boots at Millwall on £250 a week and feeling like a millionaire. I'd made it then. At that time, if I never played for another club it wouldn't have bothered me too much because I'd made it with a football team in England.

Never underestimate the collective strength of your weakest connections.

There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.

Flashy people aren't everything, you know. Even when they have frizzled hair.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

What I've learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someone's life.

I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.

There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry.

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

A Latino actor can't play this and a Latino actor can't play that because they're Latino.

In cutting government, we cut a huge variety of programs, a lot of which I would have liked to see increase, and a lot of which I'd like to see decreased more.

The knife is the balance point for survival in the bush. Without it, you have to stay on the move. With it, you create the opportunity to rest.

In the current climate motorists have a long list of issues from which to choose to raise on the doorstep. Policies aimed at reducing emissions - like the changes to Vehicle Excise Duty or here in Manchester the proposals for congestion charges - are not without controversy.

Most of us are not pure self-starters; most people need role models, they need coaches, they need exemplars, they maybe need some discipline or some rewards. We need to be motivated.

Life's like a movie; write your own ending, keep believing, keep pretending.